what's the meaning of propaganda?

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what's the meaning of propaganda and what's an example that exists today????

Answer 1

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Propaganda [from modern Latin: 'propagare', literally "extending forth"] is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience.
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Answer 2

Propaganda is information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

Example:
Bush Administration
In the Armstrong Williams' scandal, a broadcaster was paid by the Bush administration to support the No Child Left Behind education plan.

The U.S. government has also made use of video news releases in domestic propaganda campaigns. In 2004 and 2005, Jeff Gannon was given access to the Whitehouse press corps with the intent that he ask questions crafted to allow the White House spokesperson (then Scott McClellan) and the president to give favorable answers which were understood to be the answer to be used by media outlets advocating the White House's overall public relations plan

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what's the meaning of propaganda and what's an example that exists today????

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Propaganda is a type of message aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of people. Often, instead of impartially providing information, propaganda can be deliberately misleading, or using logical fallacies, which, while sometimes convincing, are not necessarily valid

Answer 5

"information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause"-Princeton Wordnet

Quite a few things qualify as propaganda. Perhaps the most obvious in today's world are advertisements for "causes" such as anti-smoking ads, AIDS awareness ads (examples of "positive" propaganda), ads for and against political candidates (both positive and negative) and then there's still the "war propaganda" such as Army ads and perhaps more interestingly, a game such as "America's Army" which was made is is maintained by the US Army.

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